Trading sugar for healthy treats
Find out how to get your kids happy and healthy again without crash dieting, starvation or un-fun rules. Here is one mother’s touching story. Click Here to listen to “The Kind Cure for Childhood Obesity.” If you want to make one vital healthful change... ...instead of sugary treats, choose healthy treats for your kids. Many people have a sugar addiction, simply because they were hooked as young children. I was definitely an addict. But you can break the cycle, because refined sugar is too dangerous to toy with. Click on the links to explore this section, or read on:
Licking the sugar habit You’ll often see “low-sugar” or even “sugar free” foods that boast these claims as if it mattered. The alternative is just as bad. Oh, and organic sugar? Haha. Who do they think they’re fooling? The truth is it’s not enough to just lower your intake of refined sugar. For optimal health, you have to eliminate it completely from your diet. Sounds hard, but it becomes easy when you just
replace it with healthy sweets.
An excellent book on this topic is Lick the Sugar Habit by Nancy Appleton. When substituting sugar for healthy treats you will be amazed at the difference. Your kids will get sick a lot less. They might feel lighter, more focused, less irritable, more energized... ...and you will definitely drop a few pounds!
Once you can replace refined sugar in your diet, teaching kids to love healthy treats will be a breeze. Teaching them to love healthy chocolate is even easier. There are plenty more alternatives to refined white sugar that your kids will love. You won’t have them crying or complaining if you do a few simple swaps.
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